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In Reply to: Uh huh posted by Jack G on March 12, 2007 at 10:05:10:
When I can, I do my best to assist people who have A/V questions and provide useful/interesting information to those who are interested.What have I done or said to you that sparks such barbed comments when I post? If you care not to discuss it openly, you're welcome to send me an Asylum message.
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As David said, I am rather skeptical of coming technologies. Lots of promises, lots of hot air. Its not against you, but the people who make the promises. I get tired of hearing about potential that just takes forever to happen. Did you know, that the first few months CDs came out, Sony et al. was talking about how we would soon have picture CDs, interactive CDs, video CDs, CDs for your computer? Yes, they did happen, but how long did some of these take to reach the consumer? 10 years? There are lots of other examples of technologies promises.
Now we are talking about HDMI, a suckass connection forced on us due to content owner's paranoia. HDMI was never about helping the consumer, it is about enabling copy protection. As you know, there have been alot of issues due to this. Now we are supposed to replace everything for the new decimal point of the month? I don't think so. What happens when 1.4 inevitably comes out?
If you want or need it, by all means go for it. That's fine for the few on the true bleading edge, but for the rest of the 99.9+% of the people, its not needed, and in many cases it causes confusion due to the sales hype-"This TV is better because it has HDMI 1.3!".
To be honest, I'm surprised you listen to the hype as much as you do.
But, that's just me.
Jack
I didn't think the 'barbs' were directed at you.I thought Jack was being cynical about the release timing/prospects for new technology which has yet to come to market. The term "vaporware" was invented for good reason. I think Jack's position is basically that it isn't worth hanging off purchasing products that cope with what is currently available in the hope that you might see products that deliver the features you mentioned in the short term. Since the original query concerned the PS3 which is currently available rather than things that may become available down the track on a very indefinite timetable, Jack's response seemed reasonable to me and didn't seem personally directed at you in any way.
I think it's hard to find a way to say "Don't hold your breath waiting" or its equivalent that isn't going to have a barb in it, even when the barb isn't directed at the person to whom the comment is directed.
There's always going to be a point where technology makes cynics of us all.
David Aiken
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